Image forming device capable of easily resolving paper jam
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShusaku Tsusaka
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Abstract
A dial is provided to a laser printer such that only a portion of the dial is exposed in an accommodating area for accommodating a process cartridge. A user can manually rotate a conveying roller to convey a paper through a conveying path by operating the dial. The dial is disposed coaxial with an auger. The auger operates in association with the conveying roller because of an auger gear being engaged with a conveying gear. A driving force from a driving motor is transmitted to the conveying gear via a planetary gear. When a paper jam occurs, the user operates the dial in order to move the planetary gear, thereby switching the state for communicating the driving force from the drive motor to the conveying roller from a communicating state to a non-communicating state.
Claims17
An image-forming device comprising:
- a casing within which an accommodating area is formed;
- a process cartridge that is detachably accommodated in the accommodating area;
- a conveying roller that conveys a recording medium along a conveying path, wherein the process cartridge is accommodated along a section of the conveying path;
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- a driving member enabling manual driving of the conveying roller,
- wherein the process cartridge mounted in the accommodating area covers the driving member, thereby preventing operation on the driving member.
An image-forming device comprising:
- a casing within which an accommodating area is formed;
- a process cartridge that is detachably accommodated in the accommodating area;
- a conveying roller that is rotatable about a shaft and conveys a recording medium along a conveying path, wherein the process cartridge is accommodated along a section of the conveying path, and the process cartridge is mounted on or removed from the accommodating area in a direction orthogonal to the shaft of the conveying roller;
- and
- a driving member enabling manual driving of the conveying roller,
- wherein the process cartridge mounted in the accommodating area covers the driving member, thereby preventing operation on the driving member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.